drollery

Example Sentences

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The mise en scène is sumptuously prepared with flourishes of rococo drollery.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026

The drollery in “Seasons” is based on the eternal question about what can, and invariably will, go wrong next.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026

The result was an interview brimming with drollery and repartee, as they talked about the rumours of a Beatles reunion, the future of rock music, and life with the Wings.

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2023

“Yellow Submarine” started out as a lament — “In the place where I was born/No one cared,” Lennon sang at first — but turned into sound effects-laden drollery.

From New York Times • Oct. 31, 2022

I was delighted with his frank good-humor, 377 and a certain spice of drollery in his description of his patients.

From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by Willis, N. Parker